Month: March 2021

LinkedIn helps Big Issue vendors reconnect with customers online

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue and LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, have partnered on a pilot scheme to support nine of the magazine’s vendors who have lost their livelihoods and their sense of community as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The partnership, concepted and managed by FCB Inferno, harnesses the incredible power of Linkedin’s network to support the Big Issue vendors, who have been suffering due to the effects of COVID. Footfall on the high streets where many of them ply their trade is much lower, and many of their…

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Invisible Cities teams up with Virtualtrips.io to launch LIVE virtual tours of Edinburgh

Stuart Mitchell

Invisible Cities, the social enterprise that trains people who have previously  experienced  homelessness to become walking tour guides of their own city in Edinburgh, Manchester,  Glasgow and York – has teamed up with Virtualtrips.io to offer LIVE virtual tours of Edinburgh.  Virtualtrips is a dedicated live-streaming platform that offers raw, human-centric tours of interesting places, broadcast in real time by expert locals. With more than 250 tours across 45 locations and counting, people can ‘travel’ together to Venice, explore Yellowstone National Park, and make it back in time to see the coast of Guernsey – all in the same day.   Viewers can enjoy following Virtualtrips’ friendly and knowledgeable…

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Shamecards, Souvenir-Style Postcards, Depict What Some American Cities Are Known For: Mass Shootings

Stuart Mitchell

Columbine. Newtown. Charleston. Parkland. These are just a few of the American cities and towns remembered as locations of the deadliest mass shootings in history. Change the Ref (CTR) – a nonprofit dedicated to reforming gun laws – is drawing attention to these places with Shamecards, graphic postcards depicting the searing scenes of mass shootings that occur nationwide and all they leave in their wake: murdered school children, workers, concert-goers, religious worshippers and families and friends. Shamecards are more than just pieces of graphic art. Starting February 4, anyone can visit this website and send…

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Age divide in marketing training adding to significant digital skills deficit

Stuart Mitchell

New research from the Chartered Institute of Marketing has uncovered a significant age divide in the marketing professionals taking part in upskilling in the UK. CIM’s latest report ‘Digital Vision, living on the cutting edge’ found that the majority of marketers over the age of 55 had received no training at all in the last two years prior to the pandemic, sparking concern that senior marketers may not be keeping up with the rapid pace of change in the sector.   The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards digital and…

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Ceres Joins U.S. Partners to Launch ‘America Is All In’ and Call for an Ambitious National Climate Target

Stuart Mitchell

As the U.S. formally rejoins the Paris Agreement, Ceres joined other organizations from across the country in launching America is All In, a new network of U.S. communities, businesses and institutions committed to mobilizing bold climate ambition and upholding the federal government’s commitment to climate action.  America Is All In builds on the momentum of the We Are Still In coalition, which Ceres co-founded in June 2017 in the wake of the previous administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. That powerful coalition grew to nearly 5,000 leading investors,…

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